I have tried the docker, ansible, and scratch methods. I have been troubleshooting for a month now. I have gotten nowhere. I need someone to help walk me through how to deploy a lemmy server because the guides are absolute trash.

Please help. I’m wasting money running this VPS and for literally nothing.

Edit: So, I’ve tried the ansible method, but I can’t access my server this way. It just keeps saying “UNREACHABLE”. I have generated a dozen keys, none of them work. I have NO PROBLEMS with ssh in Putty. I can use Putty all day. Putty works fine using my ssh key. Ansible does not. No amount of new keys has made any difference. I have countless keys in my stupid droplet because of this hacky garbage.

  • @[email protected]English
    1•1 year ago

    It doesn’t tell you to actually run nginx, it assumes it will automatically run when installed. I don’t know why, that sounds like dumb behaviour even if it were correct. You are right about the guides being trash.

    I recommend getting used to package manager (apt, dpkg) and system daemon/init system (systemd - accessed via systemctl) and then ignoring that guide. Installing and running nginx isn’t complex enough to warrant a guide; installing packages and running services, in general, are just. Configuring nginx, however… If you know the concepts, it’s pretty easy. The concepts are hard.

    • @ZMonsterOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      It doesn’t tell you to actually run nginx

      That may be so, but the link that they give references a digital ocean guide that DOES (it’s literally step 2). So, am I just ignoring that part? How do I figure out which parts of a guide should be followed and which ones shouldn’t?

      running nginx isn’t complex enough to warrant a guide

      I haven’t gotten it to work yet so I disagree.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        How do I figure out which parts of a guide should be followed and which ones shouldn’t? If ignoring a part makes the guide work better then it’s a bad guide and you should find a better one.ツ

        I haven’t gotten it to work yet so I disagree. If you systemctl start nginx, can you access localhost:80? If so, success, you’ve run nginx. Very simple.